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One hundred years of Honorary Fellows of the British Academy

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

The British Academy and the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916

A ‘From the Archive’ article.

British Academy Review, No. 28, Summer 2016

Includes: Linda Colley on why constitutions matter; Uta Frith on what autism tells us about our social nature; Marina Warner on stories as thought experiments in times of turmoil; Tackling corruption – finding out what really works; Who are the Zoroastrians?; Learning Latin – now and then.

Who owns state assets?

Angela Cummine argues the case for citizen control over public wealth.

Human nature in society

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington argues that lessons from evolution can support academic critique of how society is run.

A passion for war poetry

Philip Lancaster tells how his study of the War Poets has inspired him to compose a new musical work.

Fish ’n’ ships: a story about food and holistic outreach

Kristine Korzow Richter tells us all what we can learn from the fish we have eaten.

The history of Arabic books in the digital age

Sarah Bowen Savant reveals how computer algorithms can aid the comparison of medieval Arabic texts.

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